'The timing of the trend break suggests that the minimum-wage increases in Minnesota accounted for much of this four percentage-point gap.'

No job, no wages, no worries!

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the AAP government will decide its next course of action after reading the Delhi High Court's order that quashed its March 2017 notification revising minimum wages for all classes of workmen in all scheduled employment.

Initiative petitions that would legalize medical marijuana, raise the minimum wage and institute Clean Missouri will be on the November general election ballot.

Retailers have made headlines for raising their minimum hourly wages in quick succession. But economists say those gains have not translated to higher wages among mid-level workers.

Critics of Tbilisi's hardline drug policies say laws were being exploited to justify heavy-handed policing

CFO Matthew Clark said that increases in the minimum wage pushed labor costs up to almost 36% of revenue.

A misguided court ruling ignores the history of labor laws intended to keep blacks from working.

Union protesters and celebrity advocates have decided that waiters’ tips aren’t big enough. They are upset that in 43 states, tipped workers can be paid a lower minimum wage, as low as $2.13 an hour. Not fair! shout celebrities like Jane Fonda, who recorded commercials saying, “That’s barely enough to buy a large cup of […]

Activists want to increase minimum wage for tipped workers.

"...the transformation of the minimum wage from a policy originally intended to keep minorities out of the labor force to one aimed at protecting marginalized workers has been a stunning political magic trick."

"It's important for Disney, as the largest employer in Orange County, to recognize the struggles workers go through as the cost of living continues to rise in the area."

Two days ago, an Eleventh Circuit panel ruled (in Lewis v. Governor of Alabama) that plaintiffs challenging Alabama’s Minimum Wage Act “have stated a plausible claim” that the law “had the purpose …

Unions have accepted a proposed a 40 percent wage rise for the lowest paid employees.  

Walt Disney Co’s Disneyland Resort on Thursday said it proposed to raise the minimum wage of employees at its California theme park to $15 per hour by January 2019. The agreement with Master Services Council, provides for a minimum wage rate increase of 40 percent within two years of the deal, making it one of the highest minimum wages in the country, Disneyland Resort said. The current minimum hourly wage of $11 will be hiked …

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Wednesday that the South American nation would be removing five zeros from its currency in order to combat runaway inflation that is nearing a staggering 1 million percent. Will this help the economy? In a speech, Maduro said that this move would stabilize the economy by "anchoring" the bolivar. Maduro said that the country needed an “economic revolution.” Inflation in Venezuela is expected to reach 1 million percent by the end of the year, according to the International Monetary Fund. Initially, Maduro's government had planned to remove three zeros from the currency, but Maduro revealed in this announcement that the number had been increased to five. Inflation is currently at 46,000 percent. As a result of the crippling inflation and economic instability, Venezuela's minimum wage is the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a month. This has made it impossible for Venezuelans to buy even basic necessities. Maduro also said that the government …

The workers have a plausible claim that white Alabama lawmakers violated their rights by blocking Birmingham's minimum wage, an appeals court ruled.

Big pharma is blaming others in the drug supply chain while pushing policies to protect its own bottom line.

Chicken is a staple of the Haitian diet but its price has doubled in four years. Cooking oil and rice have gone up 10 percent the last 12 months. A liter of milk costs more than half the daily minimum wage, putting it out of reach for most of the country.

Even with tips, a minimum wage of $3.89 isn’t enough to live on.

Progressive group MoveOn is pushing for a $15 minimum wage, and they're using strong rhetoric to do so.

A fair wage for restaurant workers is apparently something the DC Council doesn’t approve of.

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine on Monday said Congress is ready and able to forbid “gag clauses” that bar pharmacies from telling customers they could pay less by using cash for certain drugs instead of ponying up the copayment under their insurance policy.

At the center of the strike are issues related to safe staffing, competitive pay and a $15 minimum wage.

"...millions of Americans, especially of Kylie J’s gen, are wasting their lives working dead-end minimum wage jobs manning (personing?) the nation’s fry-o-lator stations when they could start billion dollar cosmetic companies..."

Significant victory for struggling care sector which warned two-thirds of employers faced bankruptcy if decision was not reversed

Minimum wage laws have negative effects whether or not their advocates acknowledge them.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday voted to amend its eviction laws — again — and quietly introduced legislation to repeal a voter initiative that would raise the city’s minimum wage for tipped workers.

Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador plans to establish a border police force to combat illegal immigration and the problems associated with it, such as drug and weapons smuggling and human trafficking. The announcement comes at a time when President Donald Trump is facing intense criticism for his policies addressing illegal immigration. What are the details? For years, Mexico has been plagued with high levels of illegal immigration on its southern border. Migrants traveling north from war-torn Central America have at times overwhelmed Mexican authorities. And while most of the migrants use the border as a gateway toward a better life, others use it to smuggle drugs and weapons, which amounts to a major problem for cartel-controlled Mexico. But that's all allegedly going to change with the upcoming administration. Alfonso Durazo, Lopez Obrador's future chief of public security, said in an interview with Bloomberg published Monday that the border police force is part of a larger …